“To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action when there is more reason to fear than to hope.”

— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605), Part I, Book III, Ch. 9

About Miguel de Cervantes

1547 – 1616

Spanish novelist, author of "Don Quixote".

“Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowheartedness.”

“Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies.”

“Every one is the son of his own works.”

“There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.”

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

“He has no hope that never had a fear.”

“Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.”

“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”

“When fear admits no hope of safety, then / Necessity makes dastards valiant men.”